Assembly Bill A9870

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires parental consent for sexual health education for certain students

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A9870 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §818, Ed L

2023-A9870 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that public school districts provide parents with notice of curriculum and obtain parental consent prior to providing sexual health education to students ten years of age or younger.

2023-A9870 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9870
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to requiring parental
   consent for sexual health education for certain students
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 818 to
 read as follows:
   §  818. SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION; PARENTAL CONSENT. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF THIS SECTION, "SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION" SHALL MEAN EDUCATION  REGARD-
 ING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SEXUALITY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EDUCA-
 TION ON PREGNANCY, CONTRACEPTION AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS.
   2.  ANY  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  DISTRICT PROVIDING SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION TO
 STUDENTS TEN YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER SHALL, NO LATER  THAN  THIRTY  DAYS
 PRIOR TO THE START OF AN ACADEMIC YEAR, PROVIDE A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARD-
 IAN  OF EVERY STUDENT TEN YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER WITH WRITTEN NOTICE OF
 THE CURRICULUM OF SUCH SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND  A  PARENTAL  CONSENT
 FORM.
   3.  IF  SUCH  PARENTAL CONSENT FORM IS NOT SIGNED BY AT LEAST ONE OF A
 STUDENT'S PARENTS OR A LEGAL  GUARDIAN  AND  RETURNED  TO  THE  RELEVANT
 SCHOOL AUTHORITIES PRIOR TO THE START OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR, SUCH STUDENT
 SHALL BE EXCLUDED FROM ANY SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION.
   4.  THE  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT PROHIBIT ANY INSTRUCTION
 PURSUANT TO SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THREE-B OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to academ-
 ic years beginning on or after such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15183-01-4

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